Our online book club is discussing “Through God’s Eyes” by Phil Bolsta.  It’s the perfect book for this unique forum because it is a collection of quotes and interpretation from the world’s greatest spiritual thought leaders.  Yesterday we had an intense discussion of God and man’s desire to scientifically define God.  We were very grateful that Phil Bolsta himself joined the conversation.  I learned so much from our club and am truly honored to be student to all these spiritual teachers.

For today, I’ve picked the following:

Think of yourself as a radio trying to tune in to higher spiritual frequencies.  Keeping yourself plugged into the Divine current deepens and enriches your understanding of how the Universe operates.

“The snow falls, each flake in is appropriate place.”  ~ Zen proverb

I’ll be honest.  This one provoked me on some level.  I think it is the word “trying.”  I’m tired of trying to be one thing or another and that is especially true to spirituality.  It’s been an insane and extreme journey for me culminating with literally running off to India for Kundalini Teacher Training.  That training and experience totally and completely broke me open in the worst and best way.  Integration of the teachings has been tough.

What I’ve come to terms with is I can only do my best each day.  I am light, grey, and dark.  I organically shift through these shades and there is no sense beating myself up when I am one or the other.  My heart always holds space for the light,  yet the infinite pulse feels dark at times.  I have an intense yearning for the collective light of others to push back against the pulsation of this worldly darkness.

I question if each snow flake does fall in the right place.  I’m not a Buddhist and very much a yogi.  In yoga, we believe that all are born for the purpose of being happy.  It isn’t necessarily our own karma that creates situations of suffering, it is the collective choice-making of the world.  The best example I ever heard was from Guru Dharma as follows:

A little boy is born in the slums of India.  It is most probable that he will have a very hard life and suffer.  It is possible, however, that he will be saved from the slums.  This does happen.  So the little boy has two possibilities.  Every day that I get up, I make choices.  My choice-making shuts down the field of possibility for that little boy and it becomes more probably that he will have a life of suffering.  We have enough food, money, time, and creativity to collectively free that little boy from suffering.  Each day we choose not to appropriately disperse the energy, is one day closer to giving him a life sentence of suffering.

So, does each snowflake fall into it’s appropriate place?  What do you think?

Om, Pamela

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